Lives remembered: Brigid Utley, Sir Patrick Moore

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Utley: she read to her husband every day and he absorbed the information

Last updated at 12:01AM, December 15 2012

Brigid Utley

John Cockcroft writes: Peter Utley was more than the intellectual guru
of Mrs Thatcher and the Conservative Right. His humanity shone through in
all he did. During a friendship of two decades I never heard him denounce
the characters of those with whom he disagreed. He even praised Tony Benn as
a great parliamentarian in a Daily Telegraph leader writers
conference. His wife, Brigid (obituary,
Dec 7), and their four children were frequent visitors to the King and
Keys, next to the Telegraph. Peter would dispense drinks and
cigarettes with abandon. The looks of his current secretary were